title: A 16-year-old girl with invasive carcinoma of the vulva.
abstract: We present a 16-year-old girl with vulvar squamous cell carcinoma. The patient initially received a radical treatment because of lymph-node dissemination. However, recurrent disease erupted a little more than one year after the initial treatment, with metastases in the right lung and multiple osteolytic skeletal metastases. Despite aggressive treatments with chemotherapy the patient died about 2 years after the initial diagnosis. An aggressive radical treatment must be chosen for cases of invasive vulvar carcinoma, irrespective of the patient's age.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecologic Oncology, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nilsson
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Alm
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Malmström
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Simonsen
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tropé
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014846:Vulvar Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy